Maurice McKinnis
Maurice (Nipp) McKinnis, 101, of Union City went home to be with the Lord Thursday, June 18, 2026, at Magnolia Ridge Nursing & Rehab.
Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Edmaiston Mosley Funeral Home. Brother Chip Davis will officiate. Burial will follow in Fremont Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home from noon until the hour of services Sunday.
Pallbearers will be grandsons and great-grandsons.
Maurice was born March 27, 1925, in Hickman, Ky., daughter of the late Edward Arie and Kitty Marie (Ferrell) Nipp. She married Roland McKinnis Nov. 12, 1942. He preceded her in death Feb. 2, 1995. Maurice spent many years as a cook at the former Dixie School and Lake Road Elementary. She attended Lake Road Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Mimi True of the Clayton Community; two sons, Micky McKinnis of Hopkinsville, Ky., and David McKinnis of Houston, Texas; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by her twin sister, Daurice Denton; two other sisters, Christine Swaney and Dorothy McCullough; three brothers, Arie Nipp, Charles Alton Nipp and Ferrell Nipp; and her son-in-law, Dale True.
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